>>As a desktop OS, it's unfortunately a bit difficult to setup with everything
>>needed by the average desktop user who doesn't care what their OS is.
>>
>>This makes me wonder - a desktop OpenBSD fork...
>
> Not forking in the strictest sense - pc-bsd is not exactly a fork of FreeBSD
> but more a preconfigured installation and some userland X tools to simplify
> package management. A nice X frontend for package installation and a modern
> window manager, together with some hardware config tools and we'll have a
> perfect "desktop OpenBSD"
Alternately, a LiveCD distribution along the lines of "FreeSBIE",
to show off the usability and security of OpenBSD on the desktop.
A starting point might be
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/07/14/openbsd_live.html
I'd love to see a bootable OpenBSD desktop CD with all applications
tightly wrapped by systrace, so I don't need to recreate and redistribute
the boot disk after each new Firefox, GAIM, etc exploit.
Kevin
